My previous post on Adsense Tips was popular, so here are a few more quick ones.
QuickOnlineTips has a good post about the best Adsense plugins for wordrepss. The plugins of most interest to me were:
- Adsense Beautifier – Adds attention grabbing images next to your Adsense ads. I have seen a few people claiming this technique helped them to double their Adsense CTR. The program puts a border between the images and the ads, so that you are in full compliance with the Adsense TOS. You can check out the plugin at use if you check out the post pages on EarnersBlog.
- Adsense Deluxe – Allows you to place Adsense ads into your posts. The script allows you to easily change the style of all of your ads and have some control over the placement. On MonetizeTraffic, I experimented with a similar plugin (Adsense Injection), but Adsense Delux appears to give you more control.
Darren over at ProBlogger has some good advice on how to improve the relevancy of Adsense ads. This can have a huge impact on your earnings. On my Example Term Paper site, a few changes to the meta tags and titles quadrupled my YPN earnings per click.
One of the most interesting portions of the article deals with section targeting. You can insert special HTML comments into your site to tell Adsense which portions of the site to emphasize/ignore when determining which ads to show. I have not used this feature, but I could see it coming in handy for some sites.
That’s all for now. Stay tuned for the next installment in my Adsense Tips series.
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Thanks for the inclusion of Earners Blog in the post Paul.
Stuart
The Beautifier link has been dead all day. Is that a correct link?
I second the AdSense Deluxe recommendation – it’s great. It even keeps track of how many ads you are showing on a page so that you don’t exceed the 3-limit. The only trick is that you have to use it for all of your AdSense placements for that to work.
I’d like to try the Beautifer/image type thing and see if it helps me on any of my ads.
Mike
I double-checked the link, and it appears to be not working. Hopefully, it will be back soon. If the link does not come back, shoot me an email and I will send you the plugin zip file.
The Adsense section targeting is definitely pretty damn cool, I was hoping they’d implement something like that.
What’s the link to Darren’s article? (or am I just not seeing it for some weird reason)
Good catch Ivan. I added the link to Darren’s post.
Thanks Paul, much appreciated, and just like you said – very interesting article.
I’m not sure if I’ve decided for myself whether meta tags are really worthwhile, but seems to me that the AdSense bot respects them primarily because they’re trying to get some help from webmasters as to the content of pages. Just have to be careful because there’s also circumstantial evidence that GoogleBot penalizes sites for having keywords in their metatags that aren’t actually in page content, while its been pretty much proven that GoogleBot ignores keywords as far as determining PageRank goes.